Category: Asia
Religious leaders call for end to South Sudan clashes
Religious leaders in South Sudan are calling on parties to the conflict in the oil-producing Upper Nile State in the north of the country to implemen [...]
Facebook: Meta fined €265m by Irish Data Protection Commission
Meta, the company which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has been fined €265m (£228m) by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC).
The fin [...]
Russian mercenary videos ‘top 1bn views’ on TikTok
TikTok is hosting dozens of videos that glorify violence by Russia's Wagner Group of mercenaries and they have been viewed more than a billion times, [...]
China eases Covid quarantine and lockdown measures
China says most people with Covid will now be able to quarantine at home rather than in state facilities in a major easing of its zero-Covid policy.
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China bids farewell to former leader Jiang Zemin
China has bid its farewell to former leader Jiang Zemin in a state memorial service in Beijing.
Jiang, who took power after the 1989 crackdown of [...]
Ukraine war: Russian missile strikes force emergency power shutdowns
Ukraine is switching to emergency shutdowns to stabilise its power grid after Monday's Russian missile attacks, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said [...]
Indonesia passes criminal code banning sex outside of marriage
Indonesia's parliament has approved a new criminal code that will make sex outside of marriage punishable by up to a year in prison.
It is part of [...]
Explosions rock two Russian airbases far from Ukraine frontline
Explosions have rocked two Russian airbases far from the frontlines as Kyiv appeared to launch a pre-emptive strike on bombers that the Kremlin has u [...]
Iran: mass strike starts amid mixed messages around abolishment of morality police
Iranian shopkeepers and truck drivers staged a walkout in nearly 40 cities and towns on Monday after calls for a three-day nationwide general strike [...]
FBI joins investigation into North Carolina power outage caused by ‘intentional’ attacks on substations
With no suspects or motive announced, the FBI is joining the investigation into power outages in a North Carolina county believed to have been caused [...]